Cheese-marker.



No. 707,528. Patented Aug. l9, I902.

J. WOLFINGER.

CHEESE MARKER.

(Application filed June 2, 1902. v

(No Model.)

Parent 4 FFICE.

JOSEPH WVOLFINGER, OF DUNDA S, WVISCONSIN.

CHEESE-MARKER.

SPECIFlCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,528, dated August19, 1902.

Application filed June 2, 1902. Serial No. 109,842. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WOLFING-ER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Dundas, in the county of Calumet and Stateof|Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCheese-Makers Appliances and I do herebydeclarethat the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide for ventilation of cheesesstanding on shelves or packed in boxes and at the same time to mark saidcheeses to designateequal divisions of the same, said inventionconsisting in plates of peculiar construction designed for utilizationas cheese-hoop bottoms or follow-boards in cheese-presses or on flatsurfaces of cheeses out of hoop, said plates being hereinafterparticularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings andsubsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings representsa plan view of a cheese-indentingplate in accordance with my invention, partly broken; Fig. 2, a sectionview of a cheese-hoop and an indentingplate therein, and Fig. 3 an edgeview of a fragment of said plate.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a circular plate oneface of which is provided at regular intervals with radial, preferablytriangular, ridges b, the converging, preferably pointed, inner ends ofwhich are covered by a center disk 0 and out of touch one with another,the disk being soldered or otherwise suitably secured in place.

The above-doscribed ridged plate and disk therewith are of any suitablematerial, preferably metal, cast or stamped and constitute a cheese-hoopbottom or a follow-board in a cheese-press, or the device may be appliedunder pressure to an end of a cheese out of hoop. In either case theopposing end of the cheese is indented by the plate-ridges b and centerdisk 0 to form radial furrows in communication with a central recess,whereby when the plate is removed and said cheese stood on end upon ashelf or packed in a box there is circulation of air between it and thesurface in contact with either or both of the indented extremities toprevent molding,

,while at the same time the aforesaid cheese is marked off by the endfurrows thereof at regular intervals to gage its cutting into equal.parts.

Having thus described my invention, what -I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is---- A cheese-marker consisting of acircular JOSEPH WO'LFINGER.

WVitnesses: I

FRANK F. BECKER, GEO. E. Dawson.

